Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raids, the men broke into private homes, shouting obscenities and roughing up the terrified occupants. Mrs. Pamela Kaye Gitto of East St. Louis has charged that the men pointed a gun at her sleeping six-year-old son and struck her husband while he was handcuffed to a chair. Herbert and Evelyn Giglotto of Collinsville were handcuffed face down on their bed. While Mrs. Giglotto begged for her husband's life, she claims that the intruders ransacked their bedroom...
...MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, whose contract expires this spring. The department, however, decided last week to rehire MacEwan for next year by offering him a temporary lectureship position. This action averts what had earlier appeared to be a successful purge of all the radicals in the department--with Herbert M. Gintis and Samuel S. Bowles, assistant professors of Economics, departing for UMass and Stephen A. Marglin '59, professor of Economics, taking a sabbatical next year...
...Thorpe sounded a little self-satisfied, he had good reason. He and his colleagues pulled off something of a political miracle, taking little more than the name of a once great institution - the party of William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George - and making it once again a force to be reckoned with in British politics. "This election was the most exciting thing you can imagine after 40 years in the wilderness," Thorpe says. "This may seem like a new party to the young people who are coming in, but to me it is a real tradition that has been...
...also traded his testimony for a lighter punishment. After two years of appeals, the Supreme Court voted by a six-to-three margin not to review the case, and President Eisenhower refused to commute the sentence. Eisenhower was apparently somewhat sympathetic to the Rosenbergs' plight, but Attorney General Herbert Brownell managed to convince him that the death penalty was necessary, reportedly telling Eisenhower, "Mr. President, those folks have simply...
...always felt that I was in the presence of a remorseful man, of one who had some secret sorrow or guilt" said Eliot's friend, Herbert Read. Matthews claims that this guilt, apart from being deeply ingrained (for Eliot had adopted, early in his life, his Calvinist ancestors' need for a constant sense of sin), was "centered on two peculiar obsessions which he stated as general truths: that every man wants to murder a girl; that sex is sin is death...